zpliefrmts welcome to "inside politics." another busy monday. canada's prime minister is at the white house this hour. president trump and justin trudeau have vastly different views on immigration and refugees, but are determined to get off to the best start. >> we want to strengthen the middle class and support those working hard to join it, and

that's what we're going to be focused on in these meetings. >> trust me, it's a lot warmer in the white house, i assure you. >> the white house did not give you anything to say -- >> they did not give me anything to say. >> so you cannot say -- >> asked and answered, chuck. >> the president still has confidence in his national security advisor. >> it's not for me to tell you what is in the president's mind and for our chief of staff. >>ing fascinating story there. the trump affect on pop culture. the grammys remind us the new president is polarizing, to say the least. >> at this particular point in history, our voices are needed more than ever. as tony morrison once said, this is precisely the time when artist goes to work.

there is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, and no room for fear. we do language. that is how civilizations heal. so tonight we celebrate our most universal language, music, as we honor the voices of the past and the present. >> the atlantic's molly ball and o'keefe olivia knox atta hue news and the federalist. just moments ago a glimpse into the oval office -- with the canadian prime minister justin trudeau. an economic roundtable coming up in a few minutes, and then a working lunch. the two leaders meet with reporters in the 2:00 eastern hour. here in the united states. we'll get back to u.s.-canada reelss and the president's early foreign policy style in just a moment, but, first up, just week four of the new administration, but already talk of a white house shake-up. national security advisor michael flynn is in the deepest trouble for starters. he had dealings with russia during the final weeks of the

obama administration, that are at a minimum highly unusual. perhaps some say even illegal. then i lied to the vice president about those conversations and that led to this. take a look. >> those happened to occur around the time that the united states took action to expel diplomats. had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. >> nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. you just heard it there from mike pence. thanks to intelligence intercepts of the flynn calls, vice president pence now knows that statement was not true. he is described by several sources as furious. the fate of general flynn just one of the many staff dilemmas. you hear these rumors. it depends who you talk to in the white house. some say the chief of staff is in trouble. this one is trying to angle that one. set that aside for a minute, the palace intrigue, if you will, the trademark that has plagued trump. let's talk about general flynn for a minute. the vice president met with him a couple of times on friday.

the vice president feels his credibility was put on the line here. for all the criticism of general flynn, there's a jury of one here, the president of the united states, does he sur vief this? >> from what i understand he absolutely is on the rocks. we don't know yet because steven miller basically said he didn't know because it was trump's decision. from what i understand talking to senior people in the white house, they also think flynn is in trouble, but they don't know because trump hasn't come down yet, and that's sort of the way this place works. >> we saw during the campaign, he replaced his campaign manager when necessary. he always took it right up to the wire when he had those turnovers. general flynn has been with him from early on. he is one of the most loyal people in the trump circle. there are people that say he feeds the dark side of this president with conspersy theory or don't trust the press and the like. you learn a lot from the president in early days, and let

me pause and say we've covered a lot of administrations at the table here. there's always turmoil in the early days. at some point you say calm down. this is the national security advisor, and he did put the vice president in a horrible position. what mike pence said was not true. sometimes it causes trump to double down. that's the feeling that pretty much every white house staffer has right now apparently. that's the question too with pence. if you are going to take this off the chain, you got to know that you're going to be successful, and it's very hard with trump to know that he backed pence instead of felony. no one knows the answer to that question. that's where he gets a lot of power in his management style such that it is. >> the national security counsel, you don't hear much about it. it's hundreds of people. they get flown in from other agencies and it's absolutely critical. the president has to make a decision when north korea test launches a missile, when the president is preparing for a

meeting like he is in now with justin trudeau, and the nature row relationship. listen to this from the "new york times" on the turmoil inside general flynn's national security council. three weeks in, council staff members get up in the morning, read president trump's twitter posts and struggle to make policy to fit them. most are kept in the dark about what mr. trump tells foreign leaders in his phone calls. some staff members have turned to encrypted communications to talk with their colleagues after hearing that mr. trump's top advisors are considering a "insider threat program" that could result in monitoring cell phones and emails for leaks. >> sounds like reporters. >> you need these people, especially at a crisis moment, sharing information quickly, trusting each other, and trying to boil down the advice staff gives to general flynn and general flynn gives to the president. this is not funny. >> you haven't seen -- you have not heard from donald trump himself on this controversy. you probably will at this press conference with the canadian

prime minister, and the other thing is what you haven't heard is another name coming out of the pack. maybe they could replace him with so and so. that's really important. if you don't have a logical replacement lined up, why would you push someone out that's loyal to you. >> there were people people in the military community that didn't like him when he served. he had to leave the defensive intelligence agency. >> part of this is the president's fault. i mean it this way. he gets on the phone a lot and talks to his friends. when he is talking to one friend, he is a tea party guy. he is a stir it up. i don't trust the establishment. he calls his friend out in l.a., the developer, tom barrett. calm down, mr. president. have a long view. he calls a bunch of different people, and then when you talk to those kind of people, they all give you different snippets and perspectives on what he is

thinking, and what you get is reince is doing great, reince is going to get fired. steve bannon is the most important person in the white house. steve bannon is in trouble. what is it? >> there were stories that said that reince had come upon much more authority and everything was to be run through him. if that was the case last week, you look at this past week, it went pretty poorly. >> i would think this is a tricky week to get rid of mike flynn. the meeting with the canadians, the israeli president benjamin netanyahu coming. do you really want to shake up your national security team at a moment quite like this? there's never going to be a good moment, but this week especially given that he is coming face-to-face with critical allies, i would think it's a tricky week. >> prime minister netanyahu, he is here on wednesday. the canadian prime minister at the white house today. he just got on the plane to leave israel to come to the united states. he tweeted a picture of himself and his wife saying a strong aliengs is about to get even stronger. he is hopefulful a very positive relationship with this

president. president trump gave an interview to an israeli paper that said slow down on settlements, meaning to netanyahu, haets not helpful to peace. how much does this factor in? when the president is seeing these reports about general flynn's conduct, he has been silent on it so far about this turmoil or knives out in the white house staff. private communications, even though they work 30, 40 feet from each other. his approval rating, if you look at gallop, his net approval rating is remarkably low. president trump with a negative net 15. minus 15. president obama at this point was plus 42. when you take approval and disapproval, add or subtract, george w. bush was at plus 32. remember, george w. bush won a contested election. bill clinton, plus 17. won with only 43 pi% of the votn the ross perot year. ronald reagan, plus 37. when you see donald trump at minus 15, and we know this is the stuff he pays attention to this -- he pays attention to this. how much does this drive what he

thinks about the efficiency of the staff? >> i think he pays attention to this stuff, but he is also a guy who survived and thrived in the general election to be president of the united states even though his negatives were extremely bad. i'm not sure that's his most important metric. the other thing i would say is the ability of this white house and some of the knives out means that we should be really kashs about who is leaking what and why and so some of the stories i want to be very critical or skeptical about or healthily skeptical about, but flynn himself walked back his denials of this story. i think that's a really important element of this. this one the principal himself said maybe i did talk about it. zoo that's a key difference. i will reinforce it. you have these staff members. you see a lot of people saying is kellyanne conway openly seeking the chief of staff job? why would she be campaigning? it's only week four. this is the facts here are general flynn told the senior white house staff, including the president and the vice president, he did not discuss

sanctions with the russian ambassador while president obama was still in office. that would be a major faux pas. now he says he can't recall. maybe it came up. again, he sent the vice president out there on a limb, and the vice president now feels burnt. >> it's a circular firing squad. >> i think this also speaks to the fact that none of these folks really have ever worked in an administration like this. they're still feeling their way. this is week four. it's a month in. you have to give them some space to figure things out. i think, you know, day after day, week after week we have seen examples of them not realizing that whatever they say and do matters much more than it ever did before. their paycheck is coming from the government. it's not coming from mr. trump anymore. it's clearly been a tough adjustment for a lot of these folks. some of whom will survive, and others who may not. >> it's undermined to a degree confidence on capitol hill. >> big-time. >> this republicans say we're not sure who to go to or if x tells us something, if that's operative or if y is going to tell us something else, and i've

said this several times in the program, a striking degree to which you hear people who payed for by this president say don't pay any attention to what the president tweets or sometimes not even to what he says. pay attention to what we do. that's remarkable. in the fourth week the president gets four years. up next, our neighbors to the north. president trump meets with the canadian prime minister justin trudeau. just what those two might be talking about. that's next. there's no other way to say this. it's over. i've found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say: if you love something... set it free. see you around, giulia ♪

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refugees from syria and other hot spots. they have 700 billion neighborly reasons to try to find common ground. the trade in broader economic relationship is vital to both countries, and the big focus of today's getting to know you meetings at the white house. at this hour as we speak we know the leaders have met in the oval office. president trump tweegt a photo outside of the west wing as he gave an embrace to justin trudeau. welcome to the white house, prime minister, @justin trudeau. white house officials say ivanka trump had a big hand in this. we'll get the tape momentarily talking about entrepreneurial spirit. it's interesting for two men who have such big differences. especially on immigration. >> it would be hugely

destableizing for canada and for the u.s.-canada relationship. you know, you've got to think that prime minister trudeau is going to seek assurances that any renegotiation of nafta will go through normal channels and will have the canadians on board. what they fear is that trump would do something sudden and unexpected and disruptive and they want to be sure that they can be a partner in whatever happens. >> interesting, is the bar higher? are the tests higher for this meeting because of the first steps with mexico went badly? the president was supposed to come here. nieto pena. then they canceled because much the wall announcement. it becomes the neighborhood economic relationships that are so important. is the bar higher for this one? does president trump have to say we have to get along?

>> the white house is trying to get a sense of the man that is the commander in chief. >> it was interesting to watch, but just so you know prime minister abe comes. he gets the meeting at the white house. they have a news conference. he gets an air force one ride. then they have a crisis. north korea launches a missile. more on that any aminute. i guess one of the questions is how long of a memory does president trump have in the sense that canada trump -- justin trudeau tweeted, again, a very positive statement of late. you saw him. he was in a visit to northern region of canada where he said i'm going to come and talk about issues. here's what he tweeted. to those fleeing persecution, terror and war, canadians will welcome you regardless of your strength. diversity is our strength. _#welcome to canada. that's a direct reput yags to donald trump's travel ban. is this the kind of thing that they're going to remember or does he say, okay, you are doing what you need to do for you politically, i'll do what i need to do.

>> he spent some time, and he may have seen it. >> trudeau goes vooirl. they have things -- i think molly is right that the trade stuff might be the better place to start, and there's plenty of room for reporters to ask about the hotter disagreements, but i do want to throw it out there just because of 2017 anything can happen, but trump calls canada america junior, and trudeau gets his hugh grant action. >> stole my line. >> this is where we are. >> i will watch for that love actually moment. okay. that's one way. that's the contrarian view of what might happen. is it not a fact if you look at the first three weeks, week four, for the most part with some exceptions candidate trump is in the rearview mirror, and president trump has gone from the candidates language which is more stir it up and it was rip up nafta, and now he says he wants to renegotiate or modernize nafta.

it was japan is skrug us in trade relationships, and they should defend themselves against the north korean threat. now you had a statement that was very establishment-arian and the alliance is critical. has he not moved in these early steps, again, with one or two exceptions to a much more traditional foreign policy perspecti perspective? >> i think it's the economic interests. both of those countries understand the two leaders have to be seen as working together because so many of the companies that do business in either one have such solid operations on both sides. >> there are things like the pipeline that they want to happen quibble because there's economic reasons. i would be curious to know for the next few days what the calls are like to the canadian embassies and the foreign ministry as these other countries especially mexico call and say, okay, what's this guy really like now? do you get a sense that he is changing? can we do business with him? i suspect the canadians may answer those calls where.

>> i think there's a lot of mileage. theresa may received those calls, and i betd prime minister abe are getting them today, and prime minister trudeau will get asked -- >> george bush yub had ken by bunk port. george w. bush famously, you wrote an article, took the prime minister to graceland because he was an elvis fan. what are we learning about this president who gave prime minister abe, again, if you go back and look at what he said during the campaign about japan, striking. prime minister abe got the red carpet treatment plus, including the first trip of a foreign leader. >> we're chofrping at my notebook. >> everybody is watching how that went. everybody is wondering how do you get an invitation to mar-la-go. is it like president bush's ranch? is it going to be a special place where you get rewarded for being a good ally, a good

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welcome back. humble is not a word you should closely associate with president trump and his inner circle. >> we have a president who has done more in three weeks than most presidents have done in an entire administration. >> hmm. the new president has started a lot of debates and he signed more than two dozen executive actions aimed at issues ranging from obama care, but signing a piece of paper does not guarantee the new new deal. replacing obama care, for example, mired in congressional quick sand. the travel ban is blocked as most of you know.

at least temporarily by the courts. good for steven miller. he is promoting his boss. the president has done more in three weeks? guessing ronald reagan would probably object to that. thinking about the berlin wall and all that. bill clinton might say 21 million jobs. f.d.r. -- really? more in three weeks than most administrations in history? >> well, look, there's only so much you can do in three weeks. >> why not say we're off to a good start? >> this kind of bravado, and i'm sure they have their way of measuring it which involves numbers of executive actions, and that's one way you can measure such things. we can fact check that and say, well, actually, most of these are symbolic. these are sort of just pieces of paper positioning, and certainly they have signalled a new direction. >> by that measure i have won the powerball 1,000 times. i have bought a lot of tickets, but never won. >> they have set a lot of things in motion, and a lot of them look to be running up against the reality of governing, which

is something trump was sure he could sort of steam roll, right? he could just come in there and knock it all down, and it turns out they didn't repeal or replace obama care on day one, and that has turned into a somewhat flexible promise. i think a lot of these things that he promised to do, it's not that we can't sit here and say that they won't get done yet. he is running up against reality that they can't get done immediately. >> right. again, he couldn't get -- nobody could get these things done that fast. my question is do they have the patience? he comes from a privately held business. he comes from a -- he comes in a room and says i want this done, and it gets done. maybe it takes weeks, but he is not used to months or years. when you see steven miller saying things like that and the president tweeted out that he loved it, but it's just that's not based in reality. now, again, you're ight. they may get repeal and replacing obama care. they may get major tax reform this year. he is likely to get at least some version of his border wall if they could figure out how to pay for it, but to say out of the box when you know you're

under water and the people who didn't vote for you are not signing on and you get in their face to say we've been more successful in three weeks than -- >> that wasn't his job yet yesterday. if you have covered congress in the last eight years, you know that he was jeff sessions' top aide on immigration, and i would say at least twice, three times a week we would get some kind of memo or inbox from steven miller explaining why the ongoing immigration debate was totally wrong, and this is how you should think about it. just so happens that guy is now running domestic policy at the white house at 31 years of age. he did a fantastic job if you are donald trump yesterday. he did a miserable job if you are someone who believes in facts and reality. >> the facts and reality part, i want to stop you.

>> sorry. >> i'll let you go first. >> seriously. >> cabinet room. >> strong people. >> thank you all very much. this is a great honor. very nice. i hadn't recognized how many great success. so important. i'm honored to be here with prime minister trudeau whose father i knew and respected greatly. he gave me a picture of myself and your father and what a great

picture. i will keep that in a very special place. at the waldorf astoria together. we're going to launch the -- of which we have some of the great ones in this room. and business leaders. we have so many great women leaders around the table today, and we're going to go through your names and exactly because many of i know. some of i don't. i want to find out all about you. women, as you know, i can say that from my past life so many we can executives. phenomenal. really helped me a great deal. it was really fantastic. they played a tremendously important role, women, in our economy. women are the primary source of income and 40% of american households, and households with children under the age of 18. in order to create economic growth and lots of very good well-paying jobs, we must insure

that our economy is a place where women can work and thrive, and i think that's happening in the united states much more so, and ivanka is very much involved in this, and i appreciate you being involved in it. in canada it's happening bigley, and that's very happen. we need policies that help to keep women in the work force and to address the unique barriers faced by female entrepreneurs, and they are unique. we need to make it easier for women to manage the demands of having both a job and a family. you also need to make it easier for women entrepreneurs to get access to capital, and i guess pretty much all entrepreneurs we have to help them out because the system is not working so well for entrepreneurs getting capital, but it's in particular difficult for women. we're going to get access to markets and access to networks, and i look forward to hearing

your advice. we're going to go around the table, and i want to really learn something today, and, again, it's a great honor to be with you, and just that i can say on behalf of our country, it's an honor to be with you. >> thank you, donald, for welcoming us, and i'm really excited about launching this. sitting around the table here with a number of successful executives who just happen to be women. one of the things that i've been lucky enough to do over the past year in new york, beijing, and across canada is sit down with women ceos, women executives to talk about both their successes and the challenges they're facing that are particular, but also how, of course, we create more paths to success for women across our community and across our society. whenever i sit down with a woman executive, i know that she has had to overcome significant

barriers that exist and, therefore, is likely to have, you know, greater insight into help reducing barriers for others, and also the formidable contributor to the success of the business and the economy. for me it's not just about doing the right thing. it's about understanding women in leadership positions is a very powerful leverage for success, for business, for communities, and for our entire economy. [ speaking french ] >> it's a great pleasure to sit with you now and to hear from your extraordinary leadership. >> how about we start with ivanka. you might just want to say a couple of words. >> welcome, and i'm honored to be here.

i'm really looking forward to hearing from each of you to serve as tremendous role models and so many other business leaders. you can lend some tremendously valuable perspective. we think about the unique challenges that entrepreneurs and women in the work force, female small business owners each and every day, and as we think about how we level the playing field for this generation and for the next, says so thank you for being here, says and i look forward to hearing from each of you. >> thank you. >> thank you. i'm dawn ferrell, and i'm from a company called -- which is located in alberta. it's where we're going to build the keystone pipeline. >> a big chunk of it. that's right. >> thanks for the opportunity to contribute to this important dialogue and a dialogue that we've had for hundreds of years. my company is in the business of making electricity. we generate electricity from cole, natural gas, and also from

renewable sources, wind, hydro, and solar. we have operations in canada, united states, and in australia. really for us we have to be excellent at operations, engineering, financing, training, and we have to excel in the public policy dialogue that happens around energy. i'll talk about that. >> good. >> as part of today. we've done some excellent work. >> we've been listening to the beginning of an economic roundtable at the white house hosted by the president of the united states and the prime minister of canada. noteworthy that ivanka trump, the president's daughter, and senior advisor, i believe, is the fist time i've seen her speak in any extended way at an official white house event. she's part of the president's effort to encourage women in the workplace. let's bring it around the table here in terms of what we're seeing here. not a lot of substance there. an important moment for the two leaders as the part of of getting to know you process. they have some differences. especially on immigration, refugee questions, but here's an effort to sort of, hey, pass that common ground on the economic relationship between the two countries. anything jump out at you and the remarks of the president or the

prime minister or just the politics of this? >> as you were sort of saying, it's well managed event, and to the extent that ivanka is involved in that, it may raise her profile on the issues that she's working on. there has been some uncertainty. she can be as involved as she wants to be, and if she's going to do an event like this, and it's seen as successful, that will presumably give her more license to do more. >> she is known during the campaign as someone when she thought maybe she was out a ledge or out in politically different category that someone would try to steer him back. i don't know if that's the right word. >> a lot of people said they have the valerie jarrett job or whether they were going to get -- i think that's one of the guys who officially has the job that he used to have. given her ties to the -- direct ties to the president and the fa account that she's burning up quite an expense bill with the fancy hotels here having breakfast every morning with different ceos, that's more of

the valley jarrett job, talking to the business community, bringing them into the white house to sit for this. remember, though, this is a common issue of concern for the trump family, i guess, by extension ivanka and the prime minister. when he took office, remember, he said famously, half of my cabinet will be women because half of the world's population is women. why shouldn't they fill those roles? there's obviously some common ground for him to cover. two down from the's's right, our left, is christa freeland, our former colleague at reuters. she may be a future prime minister of canada. there's a person who will get a lot of phone calls. >> elevated in part because to deal with the trump dynamic, when he won the election, and she recently had a meeting with the secretary of state that i'm told went quite well in terms of the lease focus on stuff that matters, and, yes, we have differences. let's focus out of the box on the issues that unite us. >> let's see what presented this meeting. if you are donald trump would you rather be talking about your business record or did mike flynn talk to the russians

improperly? what are you doing about noukts's missile launch and a host of other -- and the immigration restriction order? which would you rather talk about? it's pretty clear. >> for all we say about they go off the rails sometimes, you are saying occasionally some days they try to get the messaging back on track. hang tight. hold that thought. a top white house aide repeats what even republicans say is simply untrue.

welcome back. if you only knew what happens in here during the break, ladies and gentlemen. on the sunday shows before we bent to that white house -- he did a lot of the sunday shows. one of the things rerepeated, remember, you heard president trump say he believes three million to five million people undocumented voted illegally in the election.

>> ask democrats, ask republicans, ask anybody in new hampshire. they will tell you that is ludicrous. listen to steven miller. >> just for the record you provided absolutely no evidence. the president has made a statement. >> the white house has provided enormous evidence with respect to voter fraud, with respect to people being registered in more than one state. >> it is not a fact, and it is call your republican secretary of state. if you are a trump supporter, you think this is a huge problem? is it a minor problem? sure. could we do better? sure. call your secretary of state. do this yourself. but why? somebody tell me why. he is on the payroll now. you pay him. taxpayer paid employee standing in the white house briefing room

spewing garbage. >> that's two things here. >> it's not true, and he beliefs it. >> forgive me. is it your job if you work for the president and he beliefs this, isn't it your job to work on the president to get him through this, or at least not to repeat it on television? i can't say that on television because we have no evidence that it's true. >> well, do you see him suddenly changing the terms, right? you have steven miller not saying three million illegal votes, switching the topic to voter registration talking about noncitizens being registered to vote, which does happen and may or may not result usually does not result. only a few cases has resulted in actual illegal votes being cast. >> he can walk around the west wing and find a few people who are registered to vote in two states. that happens. that happens, and states don't

have the money to go back and did all this stuff. i want -- a former chairman of the new hampshire republican party, i refer you to his twitter feed. they're offended by this in the state of new hampshire. republicans and democrats. they say, look, you lost a close election. do better next time. try harder next time. this is not true. we know how to run elections. >> here's the thing. winner talk is just saying we won. i thought the argument they made at the very beginning of this whole discussion, which was if the idea were to win the popular vote, i would have worked on winning the popular vote. it didn't do hillary a lot of goodwining the electoral college did. stick with that. voter fraud is a thing that happens. it does not happen in giant numbers that usually swing elections. fine. if you want to investigate that, many republican secretaries of state are saying, look, we've done that. we've done the job. to me it's a loser argument. >> the only northern migration i saw was people from massachusetts attending trump

rallies. >> some clinton rallies too. clinton rallies too. a lot of people -- >> a lot of people say -- >> they weren't voting in new hampshire. that's for sure. >> someday. up next, our reporters, including why diplomats from across the globe are watching president trump's state visits. extra closely. the possibility of a flare was almost always on my mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go... and how to deal with my uc. to me, that was normal. until i talked to my doctor. she told me that humira helps people like me get uc under control and keep it under control when certain medications haven't worked well enough. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where

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we surround our table with reporters, not pundits. at the end of the program every day they get you out of ahead of the political news. >> now that jeff sessions has been confirmed as attorney general, one of the big moves he is expected to make probably in the coming days is to choose the u.s. solicitor general. this is a high profile position. it is the face of the administration in front of the supreme court arguing those big cases. given the extent to which this zraigs is likely to be tied up in court, that person may have quite a lot to do. there were said to be two

contenders as of last week. chuck cooper, who has argued a lot of conservative movement cases, and kellyanne conway's husband, george conway, was also very respected litigator and worked on the paula jones case against bill clinton. chuck cooper pulled ouch contention last week. feared he would be too controversial. however, george conway is not the last man standing from what i understand. the administration is wear that it would be controversial to have the husband of a senior white house counsellor in that position and the potential conflicts it could cause, but in a decision is expected soon. >> we'll keep an eye on that one. >> speaking of big appointments, five more cabinet level nominees may get confirmed this week. steve manuchin. david to run the v.a. tomorrow morning linda mcmahon to head the small business administration, and later this week possibly before the president's day recess begins scott pruitt, to lead the e.p.a., and nick mulvaney. those two guys would face similar thee at ricks pulled by

democrats last week in michigan this week for those two. andrew pos ner, the labor secretary nominee hearing is on thursday. it's another one where democrats are expected to try to make hay. >> donald trump made a lot of comments that were controversial about nato about japan, about rekra leading some leaders in foreign capitals word that he would lead diplomatic norms from the patriots victory parade that's in front of you. now they're watching very, very closely all of the diplomatic -- the early diplomatic visits. theresa may of great britain. even the king of jord arrive who saw the president. they really, really are studying prime minister abe of japan. they're that visit because it was very well choreographed by the japanese. they got that invitation tomorrow. they got those rounds of golf in and got the rest of it. one of the sources of concern is about that dinner that they had in the mar-a-lago dining room. i've heard that, wait, who is in that room? what if they have business before my government? do he this stay away? what about that business of pulling in the prime minister to do a selfie with a wedding party and they're just trying to get a

sense of what the rules are going to be? they're totally fine with unorthodoxed diplomacy, whether it was george w. bush's ranch? they're fine with that. they know donald trump is not going to be business as usual, but they want a little bit of reassurance about what's going to happen in that setting. >> catherine. >> speaking of the nfl, they sent a warring shot to texas this week saying that there's a bathroom bill under consideration there, be and, hey, watch out. we might not give you a super bowl in the -- i would caution that perhaps the more important political story is the economy in places like texas and the fact that they are gaining residence often at the expense of more high regulation states and maybe in the political world we are valuing one story or the other when what matters to voters, the economics. just a warning on that. >> just a warning on that. we'll keep track of that. i'm going to save time. don't have time to get to my notebo notebook. i want to tell you, the president of the united states, the prime minister of canada, joint press conference. 2:00 right here. stay with cnn for that. hope to he so you right back

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hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington. 9:00 p.m. in moscow. wherever you are watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. up first, diplomacy tops the agenda. day 25 of the trump administration also. the white house faces a deadline today, the battle over the president's travel ban, and behind the scenes there is trouble. serious trouble within the trump team. on the diplomatic front president trump is meeting today with a visiting canadian prime minister justin trudeau. the two leaders hold a joint news conference right at the top of the hour. we'll, being, have live coverage for you. looking at live pictures from the east room of the white house right there. the judge who put president trump's travel ban on hold wants to hear from both sides by 3:00 p.m. eastern laterto